Scripture Ref: Philippians 3:8-10 Luke 18:1-8 Luke 11:1-13 James 5:16-18
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1 Prayer Scripture Ref: Philippians 3:8-10 Luke 18:1-8 Luke 11:1-13 James 5:16-18 Dr Reuben Archer Torrey said, Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God s infinite grace and power. All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of the pray-er (the person who prays). But we must use the key. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent. Introduction: To the born again believer, prayer is as essential as breathing, and to neglect it will result in weakness and defeat. It is not only important that Christians should pray, but it is of supreme importance. C. H. Spurgeon said that, The heart of prayer is the prayer of the heart. We see in Philippians 3:8-10 that Paul wanted Jesus more than anything. This cry was in his heart day and night. What did this mean to Paul? It brought Jesus to him. When one gets this cry in the soul, placed there by the Spirit of God, then all of life becomes unified in this cry. Life then has one aim the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, our Lord. If our praying issues from any other source that a pure and sincere love for the Lord Jesus, it will be praying amiss! A great persevering, constant, loving prayer to love God for His own worth, to love Jesus because that will satisfy His great love, which led Him to die to win your love; this prayer will be the true foundation for all praying. How can we pray for others with love and compassion without the love of Jesus burning within? The first great prayer of every life must be to know Jesus. Now we must not think that this prayer is confined to certain times and places. In truth, no prayer is. We can pray at all times and in all places. It is so easy, during our working hours to stop for a few seconds and tell Jesus that we love Him. Every time we tell Him of our love, He does something for us, making us love Him more. This is prayer in its deepest sense. Anyone can do this. Divine love is as vast as the universe and as available as air and sunshine. 1. We learn to pray by praying You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. The same can be said about prayer; we learn to pray by praying. Prayer is one of the greatest art forms in the world. It needs to be learned. We go at everything in our life with some definite plan and likewise, we should have a plan for our prayer life God s plan though is not found in a 7 step training manual; it is born from our relationship with Him. The more we need to pray, the less we want to pray. The apostles had to make a decision, a far-reaching one, at the beginning of their ministries. The press of duties began to claim more of their time than they felt necessary. They made the decision to give time to prayer. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word (See Acts 6:4). Prayer is not a sideline; it is the mainline along with the ministry of the word. Significantly, prayer comes first. When we look at the inner life of the church at Antioch (See Acts 13:2), we find the workers, apostles and prophets in fasting and praying. Christians in the early church took time to pray. That was the reason for their phenomenal 1
2 power. Today we again must give time to prayer. We take the first step by making time and then putting to action our good intentions to actually pray. 2. Jesus is our example The Gospel of Luke, which presents Jesus as the Son of man, tells us over and over again that Jesus was away praying. And He withdrew Himself into the wilderness and prayed (Luke 5:16). A literal rendering from the Greek text gives us this: And He withdrew Himself constantly into the deserts and was praying. The point of the Greek verb is that the withdrawing was habitual; he did it all the time, it was a habit. Jesus began his ministry by praying. He was standing in the river with John when Jesus also being baptized and praying, the heaven was opened (Luke 3:21). He continued His praying, as we have seen in the fifth chapter of Luke. In chapter six of the same gospel, we find Him in the mountains praying. He continued all night in prayer to God (Luke 6:12). The next day, He chose the apostles, but first a night of prayer was necessary. When Jesus did things, he prayed. In the ninth chapter of Luke, we find Jesus alone praying (Luke 9:18). He did not seem to notice the many tasks to be done. How often one ceases to pray when success makes many duties. Not so with Jesus. He had to pray. Luke 11:1 again notes that Jesus was praying in a certain place. It was then that the disciples, amazed at the prayer life of their Master, asked Him to teach them. That s all Jesus is waiting for an invitation to begin the lessons. God s command is continue in prayer. God s example is in His Son; we see Him always alone praying. We show what value we put on prayer by the time we spend in its exercise. You cannot hide from God or man what you think prayer means to you in the world. May God help us to see that time we should dedicate to praying in the Holy Ghost which will keep us in the love of God (Jude 20). 3. Prevailing Prayer The greatest need in the church today is prevailing prayer, the kind of prayer that keeps on praying until the answer comes. Jesus tells us about this in a parable that He once preached concerning the unjust judge and the little woman that came and knocked constantly until she got the answer. (See Luke 18:1-8) Jesus prefaces that with this particular statement: Luke 18:1 that men ought always to pray and not to faint/loose heart. That means pray and keep right on praying until you get the answer or the breakthrough. This is the kind of prayer that we need in the church today. When I look at that phrase I see a choice either pray or lose heart. If I pray as Jesus taught I should, in His name and with an obedient faith that guides my life, not lose heart! To express the other end of this, if I lose heart I must not be praying in the manner taught by Christ. Which will it be? Will you pray or lose heart? In the story, Jesus gives a reason why we should always pray. We should pray because God will give relief to those who appeal to Him as a righteous Judge. This story involves three parties: a judge, a widow and an adversary. There was this judge who did not fear God nor regard man. We know there were such men in Palestine then, and we believe there are such men in positions of judicial authority today. They have the position, but they do not have the godly character, compassion and sense of justice that should qualify a man to be a judge. Jesus says that this man did not fear God nor regard man. The widow came to the judge to plea for relief from her adversary. The Lord said that for a while the judge would not respond; he would not do anything. Then the judge thought, This widow really annoys me. Although I don t fear God or respect people, I ll have to give her justice. Otherwise, she ll keep coming to me until she wears me out. 2
3 The point is, if an evil judge will eventually give relief to those who appeal to him, how much more will God (who is perfectly just) give relief to His own elect! This is like the teaching of Christ earlier (in Luke 11:1-13, note the expression how much more ). God s people should always pray and not give up or lose heart because we are appealing to a perfectly just and righteous Judge. One way faith expresses itself is in the persistent, fervent practice of prayer. Prayer should not be like a fire extinguisher. This equipment hangs on the wall and you may pay little attention to it until there is an emergency. Then you want it! Some treat prayer the same way. If there is no emergency in life, they don t use it. But in time of crisis they want God to listen and respond at once! The teaching of Christ is exceedingly plain we ought to pray regularly, always, knowing that God is perfectly just and will answer according to His wisdom. 4. The problem of Prayerlessness A little careful observation of oneself will disclose that all that is not born of prayer bears the marks of self, not the marks of the Holy Spirit. To try to work for Christ and not pray is foolishness. It is self-delusion. We must pray or attempt nothing for God. Prayerlessness is the mark of a spiritual disease. It shows that one is not interested in God and why then should one try to serve Him in whom he is not interested? When one loves Jesus, he longs to pray. Prayer is his daily bread, the air he breathes. Prayerlessness points to broken fellowship a fellowship that should first be restored before work is attempted. Failing to pray is an indicator of a lack of love for the Lord. Prayer, at its heart, is communicating with God. What does it say to Him when we fail to find time to talk with Him? Do we say by our lack of prayer that we are not at all interested in spending time with the Lord or hearing anything from Him? When we do not pray, we move away from any possibility of intimacy with Christ. Prayerlessness is a declaration that we do not need God. Ronnie Floyd, in his book, How to pray, said there are two critical statements about prayer that we must understand: "Prayer occurs when you depend on God" and "Prayerlessness occurs when you depend on yourself." When prayerlessness is prevalent in our lives, we are also guilty of failure to love one another. There is scarcely any greater way to demonstrate love than to pray for someone. In godly intercession, we lift the needs of another to God and watch as He moves to meet needs and provide for the one we are praying for. Through prayer, bodies are healed, families are knit together, individuals are saved, and churches are revived. When we withhold prayer on behalf of others, we demonstrate hardened hearts and a failure to love them enough to bring their needs before a loving Father. Failing to pray is an indicator of our lack of concern for the advancement of Christ s Kingdom on earth. Throughout Scripture and church history, spiritual breakthroughs occurred when the Lord s people got serious about prayer. When we refuse to pray, and that is what prayerlessness is, we turn our backs on what God desires to do on planet earth in our day. 5. Why should we pray? Prayer is important because of the importance it is given in the Word of God. The Bible is full of the subject of prayer. Imagine what a mutilated book we should have if every reference to prayer were taken out of it. The fact of the emphasis on this subject of prayer which is made in the Word of God indicates to us the importance placed upon it by the Holy Spirit who is the Author of the book (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21). 3
4 Prayer is important because of the teaching of our Lord. Here again, imagine the four Gospels with every reference to prayer cut out of them. Over and over again Jesus stressed the importance of prayer, gave wonderful promises in relation to prayer and encouraged His disciples (and us) to pray - look up Matthew 18:19, 21:22; Mark 11:24 and John 14: He, in fact, is our great example in prayer - look up Luke 3:21; 5:16; 6:12; 9:18 and 28; 11:1 and 22: Prayer is important because it is the first instinct of the new life. Just as the first instinct of a newly-born babe is to cry, and in so doing to use its lungs, so the first instinct of the newly-converted soul is to cry - look up Romans 8:15, and notice the illustration of this simple truth in Acts 9:11, where we read of Saul, immediately after his vision of the ascended Lord, praying. Prayer is important because it is the Christian s vital breath. The Christian life is a new life - His life, the life of the risen Lord Jesus implanted in us by the Holy Spirit - look up 1 John 5: This new life can only be sustained by prayer, and only by prayer can we develop into robust, healthy Christians; without prayer we shall be anemic, lifeless and ineffective. This means that we should pray privately (Matthew 6:6), frequently (Psalm 55:17), regularly (Daniel 6:10); in times of trouble (Psalm 50:15) - in fact, without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17). Prayer is important because it is such a glorious privilege to pray. The Christian life is full of privileges, but can you imagine any greater privilege than to enter into the holiest of all, into the throne room of the King, and to bow in humble worship at His feet, to speak with Him face to face and as friend with friend? How great is this privilege! - See Hebrews 4:14-16 and 10: Prayer is important because of all it can accomplish in supplying every need. For the believer, prayer is the divine method for supplying every need - look up Philippians 4:19; and the reason we do not have is because we do not ask - look up James 4:2. If only we would ask, we would receive - look up Luke 11:9-10. Prayer is important because only through prayer can God s will be accomplished. His working depends upon our asking look up James 5:17. He waits to yield to our pleas - look up Ezekiel 36:37. This is how he has ordained it. The purpose of prayer is not to make God alter His will, but to provide Him with a channel through which He may accomplish His will. 6. The life behind the prayers The life that prays is of fundamental importance, for the kind of life behind the prayers is greater than the prayers themselves. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth/accomplishes much (See James 5:16b). The word righteous must not be left out of our consideration. It is the key word of the verse. It tells us that the kind of praying that one does is conditioned by the kind of person he is. Now James 5:17-18 refers to the praying of the prophet Elijah. James reminds us of the time when Elijah prayed for drought in Israel and then relief from that drought. He prayed first for drought and it did not rain in Israel for three years and six months. He then prayed for rain after the drought and God sent abundant rain. As amazing as these events were, perhaps the greatest miracle was God s use of Elijah. God used these prayers of Elijah to bring about miraculous works. Elijah prayed with power and effectiveness. Why was that such a great miracle? James writes, Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are (James 5:17). Elijah was a common, ordinary man. He was not different from you and me; he was like you and me a sinful man saved by God s grace. He had his ups and downs in his relationship with God. He struggled to trust God at times just like us. 4
5 The Bible reveals that these characters, like Elijah, were just like you and me. They weren t super stars that live above the daily realities of our own lives. They were flawed people who loved God and walked with Him. God s purpose in recording this is to encourage you. He wants you to know that powerful and effective praying is not out of your reach. It s not just for super stars. What kind of a person do you have to be to pray with power and effectiveness? We must be righteous. How does one become righteous? We become righteous by believing God s promise of salvation through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. One must accept this truth through faith in Jesus before you can pray with power and effectiveness. To come to the Father in effective prayer, you must first come to Jesus by faith (John 14:6). Rejoice in the truth that God accepts you through His Son; ask God to help you rest in this and that this truth will fuel your praying before Him. We pray from a position of being accepted by the Father. This leads us to state emphatically, again, that the kind of praying you do depends on the kind of person you are and the kind of life you live. If we look at prayer as an instrument by which God works out His plans in this world of sin and chaos, we see that a great deal depends on the channel through which the prayer passes. He chooses ordinary people like you and me who have been made the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus. Not through our own effort but based on the atoning sacrifice of Christ Jesus on the cross. (See 2Corinthians 5:21; Rom 3:22; Rom 5:1) We therefore must have confidence in God when we pray. The Bible tells us that Elijah, the ordinary man prayed fervently and earnestly. Why did he pray this way? He understood that only the Lord God of Israel could do what he asked. When do we pray with power and effectiveness? It takes place when we come to the end of ourselves. It happens when our confidence is in God and God alone to answer and intervene and not lean on our own dead works. Sin in our lives will interfere with our prayer life. Worldliness will hinder us as we try to pray. Why? Sin interferes with our relationship with God and prayer flow from our intimacy with God. That is why the Bible teaches us that if we confess our sins, he will be faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (See 1JoHn 1:9) The consecration to pray will free God to do His mighty works. It is in the prayers of His people that God works. When this vision reaches our inner consciousness, that God waits for our prayers to accomplish His will, we shall cease our trifling and self-efforts and come to His feet to be trained in effective prayer. 7. Pray according to the will of God Prayer begins in the heart. It does not come from your understanding or your thoughts or the mind of man. Prayer offered to the Lord from your mind simply would not be adequate because of the limitations of the mind. Your own efforts at praying will become less and less as Christ gains complete control, as you yield to God's working in you. He will then lead you and show you what to pray. Prayer comes from within. The attitude of your heart in praying should be to seek nothing for yourself but only to seek Christ and to do His will. To love Him just because you love Him and not for what He can give. We must understand that once you have given your life to God you cannot take the gift back again. The gift of your life authorizes God to let His will be done in your life. A surrendered life is a matter of great importance if you are to make progress in exploring the Lord's mysteries. Abandonment is the key to the inward spiritual man. God is like a magnet. The longer you continue to turn within the closer you'll come to God and the more firmly you'll cling to Him. The closer you come to God the farther removed you are from your natural man who is very opposed to your drawing nearer to God. When you are established in turning inward to God you'll find it easy to live before God and pray continuously. 5
6 So first the prayer becomes His presence, now His presence becomes the prayer. In the beginning you were led into His presence by prayer, but now, as prayer continues, the presence actually becomes what you pray. Now experiencing His presence is prayer. It is no longer the prayer that continues but it is His presence that continues. The continuous experience of His presence is continuous prayer prayer without ceasing. The awareness of His presence is prayer that now prays His will into existence. As soon as you turn inwards towards Christ and towards His presence so you are enveloped in prayer. It is here that you start to experience an internal conversation with the Lord. When you are turned inward, being in His presence, being in prayer, conversing with Him no outward circumstance can interrupt your prayer. It is at this point where sin is furthest removed from you and where you are the least aware of sin. It is here where it feels like the soul no longer lives but that Christ lives in your soul. Continuing in this kind of prayer you discover that it becomes more difficult to make prayers of request simply because the Lord is the focal point and your concern is with Christ. It is now the Holy Spirit that prays and makes intercession for us, helping us in our weaknesses. (See Romans 8:26-27) Let God do in you what He wants to do. Give up your own prayers (soulish prayers), your own desires, and your own requests. Live a life in which there is nothing that you want. In so doing the Lord adds to your life what you really need. Real prayer has the giving up of self as its foundation. Prayer is like incense whose smoke ascends to God. (See Revelations 8:3-4) Prayer is a dissolving of self and an uplifting of Jesus Christ. Prayer becomes a fire of love for God. It's in our dying that He lives. The soul should yield to the leading of the Holy Spirit within. The soul should wait and be faithful to act only when the Spirit moves. The soul exalts self but the Spirit never exalts the self nature. Therefore let the soul do nothing of itself in prayer. The soul's effort in prayer is always that of anxiety and striving. When the soul is responding to the Spirit the action is free, easy and natural. Hold your soul at peace. If a canvas is unsteady the artist is unable to paint an accurate picture on it. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Every movement of self produces error. Self activity interrupts and defeats the design which Christ wants to engrave upon us. We must be led by the Spirit. Such activity can only take place with our consent. Cease to live so that Christ can be your life. This begins by turning inward to God, being drawn by Him, having a desire to explore the unsearchable riches and mysteries of Christ, yielding yourself to God and being led by the Spirit. (Romans 8:27) The Spirit utters in prayer only what the will of God is. When we pray according to the will of God He hears us and does whatever we ask because it is according to His will. Outward actions that are a result of inward motivation have spiritual value. We need to give more attention to activities taking place internally. These are the activities of the Spirit. The Spirit is inward not outward. Conclusion: The young believer may need to simply begin a regular daily time of prayer, even if just for five minutes a day. The believer who has walked with the Lord for 50 years should far exceed this mark, simply because of a deepened level of intimacy with Jesus. The issue for most of us is to take another step forward along the journey of prayer. Whether it is adding several minutes a day, or beginning to pray for those you have never considered praying for, you can begin to respond to the stirring of the Holy Spirit within you to become a person of prayer. Ultimately, God is calling us all to a life of prayer. It is a life lived in close proximity to God. We learn to "pray as we go," whether we are driving a car or studying in school. As we learn to live out the truth of Colossians 1:27, "Christ in you, the hope of glory," we will begin to understand more how the Apostle could command us to "pray without ceasing." 6
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